India successfully shoots down satellite in space
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Re: India successfully shoots down satellite in space
#42I wonder why the prime minister felt the need to announce this himself. If I remember correctly the Chinese premier did not announce their test.
Being the 4th nation to do this is tremendous achievement, being not acknowledged by PM would have been a bigger news.
These tests ought to be banned by international agreements. This is not an achievement for anybody. It is a travesty.
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#43I wonder why the prime minister felt the need to announce this himself. If I remember correctly the Chinese premier did not announce their test.
Because that's the norm in India. Even the then PM, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had announced the successful test of Nuclear Bomb in 1998:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II
And point to be noted is that this one was just after the election. So it seems like elections have not been a major factor in these kinds of announcement in India.
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#44https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome :(
In cases where the satellite is orbiting low, Kessler shouldn't be a problem. In this case the satellite was at 300km and the pieces would decay in less than a year. Even if pieces were pushed into a higher orbit by the explosion, they would still dip down to 300km periodically and decay just a little longer.
Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_decay#/media/File:Alti...
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#45Is there any video/photo footage of this? We can see space-x events from 32 different angles and audio of everything happening, I kind of assume you would record these events too?
Its a weapons program. They won't release missile footage publicly.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being the 4th nation to do this is tremendous achievement, being not acknowledged by PM would have been a bigger news.
These tests ought to be banned by international agreements. This is not an achievement for anybody. It is a travesty.
Then everybody will do it secretly. It's only a travesty when someone starts it; other people have the right to respond to parity with their own.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Missiles are easily tracked. Your opposition will know who, how, when and where someone was taking action against them. Light pressure could just subtly push a satellite off course as it passes overhead. They have finite propellant on board to correct for it. That said, I don't think a big mirror reflecting the sun is all that practical when a big ass laser would do the same job and be easier to manufacture and opera…
Let me get this straight, a missile is easy to track, but a giant mirror reflecting a load of sunlight that would have to be LoS to the satellite wouldn’t be? Not to mention that bombing the mirror would be a lot easier than shooting down the missile...
A missile can be viewed from many angles. A beam of light is (mostly) only visible by whoever its aimed at. Light dispersion not withstanding. Sunlight is quite bright and will mask a lot of the scattered light as well.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Code of conduct doesn't apply to national security issues. Not sure what Mr. Gupta is implying here.
> Code of conduct doesn't apply to national security issues You realize that nobody is fooled right? Everyone except for Modi's supporters sees through this
That's not what I am doing here. You can read it yourself: https://m.economictimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/i...
I'm not about aware about any change in the Code of Conduct since the EC made that statement. Correct me if I am wrong.
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#49Shooting a satellite in space is many many times more difficult than shooting a bullet with another bullet. It's not just because space is vast, but also because satellites move at about 35000 kmph & you need to factor for the trajectory, gravitation forces etc.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, the announcement almost certainly was.
So... Don't announce scientific achievements by your national space agency during an election? Talk about skewed perspectives.
Wait, now I'm confused... is it a military national security issue or a scientific achievement?
China managed to not have Xi Jinping announce when they did it.